Octopussy

Octopussy, the sixth James Bond movie to star Roger Moore, was direced by John Glen and premierred in 1983 (incidentally, the same year as Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery). It was a point in time when the Cold War was still on many people's minds, but less tense than in previous decades, as disarmament talks were finally starting. Many people in the west were also demanding unilateral disarmament.

Octopussy picks up on that theme, featuring a fiendish plot by a renegade Sovietgeneral that involves exploding a nuclear bomb inside a U.S. military installation in West Germany to further weaken the NATO position. Unforgettable is the scene in the Soviet planning centre involving the giant screen and the rotating discussion table, where he first details his plan to overrun the west, but is rejected by the council. Really nice performance - this guy is one crazy bastard.

It also features a second main villain, the evil Kamal Khan, who's in it for the money, and his scary Indian henchman Gobinda who can crush loaded dice to dust in one fist, and learns to fly near the end. Other enemies include the knife-throwing Russian twins and the Indian with the yo-yo saw.